“That was a great wedding,” Sam said as the group made it back to the library. The girls, Spike and Sam had just got back to the library from after saving Shining Armour and Princess Cadence’s wedding, and now everyone was tiered.

“yeah Sam!” Twilight replied. Aurora, Spike and Scarlet were already asleep on Twilight and Sunset’s back, everyone went upstairs to the bedroom as Twilight and Sunset tucked Spike, Aurora and Scarlet into bed.

“you must be exhausted?” Sunset asked.

“Boy am I,” Sam exhaled, “Digging a tunnel, saving the wedding, dancing, secretly eating food, yeah I’m exhausted.”
“I’m going to pretended I didn’t hear that last part,” Twilight frowned.

“Well I bet you’ll sleep like a kitten when your head touches the pillow,” Sunset joked.

“Yeah,” Sam said giving a little chuckle of his own.

“Sam?” Twilight asked, “Aurora has said that you had a brother and two sisters. If you don’t mind could you tell me about them?”

“Ok!” Sam said nodding, “Well first there’s my older brother, Joe he’s the oldest, mum often put him in charge when she and dad where busy. He’s also going out with my babysitter, Emily.”

“Wow,” Sunset replied before giving Twilight a cheeky grin, “sounds familiar?”

Twilight ignored that as Sam continued, “There’s Kerry, my first oldest sister, she is one of the smartest out of all four of us.”

“Oh,” Twilight said to him, “and what about your third sibling?”

“Her name is Rebecca or I call her Becca for short!” he said. “She was so funny and fun to play with, she would always have a smile on her face”.

“They sound like a nice friendly and loving family,” Twilight explained.

“Before I go to bed can I have a glass of milk?” Sam asked. A nod from Twilight was all that was needed. Sam when down stairs and into the kitchen followed by Sunset. After his drink, Sunset walked with him back upstairs to see Twilight had just got into bed. Sam went to do his business, Sunset used her magic to tuck him into the bed where Aurora and Scarlet shared and placed Sam in between the two of them.

“Good night Sam,” Sunset said before kissing him on the forehead “sweet dream”.

She walked to her side of the bed, turned off the light and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, Aurora and Scarlet woke up to the sound of quiet whimpering in between them. They looked towards Sam and saw him shaking and making the whimpering. It looked as if he was having a nightmare. Scarlet gently shook him to wake him up.

“Sam,” she whispered in his ear. He didn’t respond, so Aurora tried. “Sam, wake up. You’re dreaming.”

Sam suddenly yelped, shot up, opened his eyes, and started breathing heavily.

“Are you okay?” Aurora asked.

Sam shook his head and started crying. Aurora brought up one of her forehooves around his back and the two fillies pulled him closer to them. They then wrapped their arms around Sam as they embraced him in a warm and calming hug. Aurora and Scarlet rested their heads on Sam shoulders.

“What happened?” Scarlet asked him.

“I-I-It was awful,” he said, “I was trying to save everyone from what looked like another human with another omnitrix, but I couldn’t win! And he took you all away from me! And... And...” He started crying harder.

“Shhhhh,” Aurora said trying to calm him down, “It was just a bad dream, Sam. That’s all it was.”

“What happened?” We turned and saw Twilight awake with a sleepy look in her eyes and Sunset was also awake but she was still in the bed.

“Sam had a bad dream,” Scarlet told her.

“Come up on my bed for a minute, Sam,” Twilight said. Sam still had tears falling out of his eyes as he left our bed and walked over to Twilight’s. She then lit up her horn and brought Sam up onto her bed. She and Sunset quickly embraced him in their hooves as Sam hugged them back still crying. Sam then retold his dream to Twilight and Sunset in more detail.

“It’s okay Sam,” Twilight said rubbing his back, “It was all just a bad dream. I promise nothing bad like that will happen again.” She then started nuzzling Sam’s cheek. Sam seemed to calm down a bit a little while later, but was still sniffling. By that time, Aurora had also hopped up onto Twilight’s bed and placed a forehoof on Sam’s back to rub it. Eventually Sam had calmed down completely.

“Feel better?” Twilight asked keeping him held in her hooves. Sam pulled back a bit and nodded his head.

“Thank you,” he said, “Mum used to do that for me whenever I had a bad dream.”

“It was no trouble at all Sam,” Twilight replied, “I was happy to help. Do you want to sleep with me and Sunset tonight?”

“Yes please,” he said before snuggling up.

Twilight and Sunset giggled a little at that. Aurora got off the bed and returned to her and Scarlet’s bed.

“Sweet dreams Sam,” Twilight said nuzzling his cheek once more.

“Good night Twilight,” Sam said drifting off. He then turned to Sunset and said, “Good night Sunset.”

“Sweet dreams, Sam,” she returned to him placing a hoof over him. Soon all five of them fell asleep.

The next morning, Sam was still a little shaking up for his nightmare.

“How are you feeling today?” Twilight asked as Sam came down for his breakfast,

“Better, but I’m still a bit shaken”, Sam replied.

Just then Owlowiscious flew in with Ray on his back, and landed in front of Sam. Ray climbed off Owlowiscious’ back and climbed up Sam until he sat on his shoulder and started to nuzzle his cheek.

“Good morning you two,” Sam greeted his guardian’s pets, then a thought struck him. “PETS!” he shouted, catching everyone’s attention.

“Pardon?” Twilight asked politely, a little confused to why Sam shouted out loud ‘pets’.

“Sorry but I had a thought,” Sam explained, “I would like a pet to take care of”.

“Are you sure Sam”, Twilight said, “taking care of a pet is no easy task”.

“You’re talking to a kid who can transform into monsters and took down Chrysalis”, Sam responded deadpanned.

“Fair enough”, Twilight said, “after breakfast, we’ll take a walk up to Fluttershy’s and see if she might have a pet for you”.

“Can we have a pet too”, Scarlet asked excitedly.

“Urm, okay”, Twilight answered feeling that if she said no the two fillies will get jealous and grumpy.

Later, everyone (minus Spike) were walking up to Fluttershy’s in hope to find a pet for Sam, Aurora and Scarlet.

“I hope my new pet could help me with any more nightmares,” Sam said, “I don’t want another one”.

“Don’t worry,” Scarlet reassured him, “if we can’t find a pet for you, we’ll still be there for you”.

Soon Fluttershy’s came into view and the five could see she was attending to her birds. When they got nearer, Fluttershy noticed them.

“Hello everyone,” she greeted sweetly, “what brings you all up to my cottage?”

“Well,” Twilight began, “Sam had a nightmare last night and was really upset by it.”

“Oh my,” Fluttershy gasped as she wrapped a hoof around Sam letting him in one of her ‘Flutter-Hugs’.

“So Sam said that he would like a pet and Aurora and Scarlet said they want one too”, Twilight finished.

“Well come in and choose one,” Fluttershy said as she broke the embrace and went back inside followed by the rest.

Inside her cottage, Fluttershy showed them all different types of animals, from frogs, to mice, to squirrels to a bear by none of them were really reaching out to the three.

“Well that’s all of them,” Fluttershy said, “was there’s anyone that suits your fancies?”

“Sorry Fluttershy but there wasn’t”, Sam said a little sad, “do you have any thing... exotic”.

“Well there are some dragon eggs that Princess Ember dropped off,” Fluttershy said as she walked to the backroom, “She said they were abandoned and were shivering so she dropped them off here”.

She returned with nine baby dragons, all with different elements. Fire, Water, Earth, Nature, Electricity, Ice, Metal, Dark and Light.

All the baby dragons were cute in their own way and once Sam, Aurora and Scarlet’s eyes fell on the dragons, they knew that these were the right pets. They all turned to Twilight with puppy eyes hoping she with allow more than one each. Twilight could see that the three really wanted these nine. She sighed and nodded her head.

“YES!!!” the three yelled out loud, they calmed down and slowly approached the nine baby dragons.

They then chose what three dragons they wanted. Sam chose the fire, nature and earth dragons. Aurora chose the dark, metal and electric dragons. And Scarlet chose the light, water and ice dragons.

“Thank you Fluttershy,” they told her, “we’ll take good care of them.”

“You’re welcome, sweethearts”, Fluttershy responded, as the three children ran out with their new dragons and started to play with them.

“It’s that sweet”, Sunset remarked as three adults watched the three children play with their new pets.

Twilight could only agree.

Here is chapter 6 done
next up in chapter 7: after naming his new pets, Sam officially becomes Twilight's son